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TITLE: John Hope Franklin: 2006 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: John Hope Franklin
EVENT DATE: 09/30/2006
RUNNING TIME: 29 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
John Hope Franklin speaks at the 2006 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: John Hope Franklin, Duke University professor of history emeritus, is the author and editor of 17 books, including the best-selling "From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans." As the first distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress under the John W. Kluge Endowment, he completed his autobiography, "Mirror to America" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005). For his academic achievements, his interventions with American racism and his numerous acts of public service, Franklin has been the recipient of many honors, including the Jefferson Medal, the Charles Frankel Prize, the NAACP's Spingarn Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Franklin lives in North Carolina.
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SERIES: National Book Festival 2006